Word: stoke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Troubled young man drops out of college after beloved Dad expires. Dragon Lady Mom, who did federal time on a slavery rap, swoops in to stoke love-hate relationship with Junior. Three busy years hence, Bonnie and the Son of Clyde are Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2, suspected of murder, mayhem, arson and fraud in a spooky, dark-hearted, cross-country jag stretching from Hawaii to the Bahamas...
...Chinese or as Taiwanese. Only 16.3% say they are simply Chinese. As for the future, 86% of Taiwan's people favor holding on to the status quo and putting off unification. The status quo, as they see it, includes efforts to conduct foreign relations and join international organizations, which stoke China's fury...
Aside from a few true moments, the rites of fall have this year been almost, well, sullen. Pennant races? The wildcard took care of that. Playoffs? Three of the four series are already on the brink, and this whole first-round thing feels, well, a little preliminary. So stoke up your love of the game with The Bad News Bears (1976). Open a window on a crisp fall morning and let the woody breeze caress your VCR as Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), Amanda (Tatum O'Neal), and feisty Tanner remind you what our great pastime is all about. It'll take...
...fishery than it does to ruin one. Consider the present state of the orange roughy on New Zealand's Challenger Plateau. Discovered in 1979, this deep-water fishing hole took off in the 1980s when the mild-tasting, white-fleshed fish became popular with U.S. chefs. Happy to stoke the surging demand, fishermen are believed to have reduced the biomass of orange roughy as much as 80% before officials stepped in. Now, says Yale University ichthyologist Jon Moore, it may take centuries before the fishery rebounds. As scientists have belatedly learned, orange roughy grow extremely slowly, live 100 years...
Harvard indoor track used last Saturday's Harvard Invitational to stoke its competitive fires and gain confidence in preparation for this weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet at Yale...